Research Interests

Biography

Dr. John Carey is a Professor and Director of the Division of Otology, Neurotology, and Skull Base Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medicine. Dr. Carey specializes in the health and diseases of the inner ear that affect both balance and hearing mechanisms. As a clinician, Dr. Carey is a national expert in superior canal dehiscence syndrome, Menière’s disease, vestibular migraine, and other causes of vertigo. As a researcher, his interests include the normal vestibular reflexes and how they change with age, the ototoxic effects of gentamicin, the use of intratympanic steroids for Menière’s disease, the diagnostic utility of vestibular evoked myogenic potential testing, and the mechanisms of vestibular migraine.

He has a particular interest in superior canal dehiscence syndrome, and, with Dr. Lloyd Minor, he has developed the operation to repair the superior canal using image-guided surgery. Dr. Carey is funded by the National Institutes of Health – National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to study inner ear balance function in Ménière’s disease and steroid treatment of sudden hearing loss. He has authored or co-authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications, 10 book chapters, and three invited reviews.